Four Aston Martin Vantage GT3s confirmed for ADAC GT Masters return to Spa Francorchamps
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Competing at will be their fourth round of the season in Belgium, the two full season entries from the Walkenhorst Motorsport team will indeed by joined by a further two cars from the Prosport (albeit in differing iterations of the Vantage GT3) for their own advancing young driver line up.
Within what is still a lowly eighteen strong entry list, the #34 Walkenhorst entry of Mike David Ortmann and Denis Bulatov will again be joined by their #35 stablemate entry of Nico Hantke and Chandler Hull whilst GT3 novices Jamie Day and Hendrik Still will drive the #37 Prosport entry alongside the slightly more GT3 experienced duo of Hugo Sasse and Raphael Rennhofer aboard the #27 Prosport entry.
First time back in Belgium after a nine-year sabbatical, this event again runs the 80-minute endurance race on Saturday (including its two mandatory stops) before a concluding 40-minute sprint race on Sunday like they did last time out at the Nurburgring in mid- July.
Results within the series have not been that great for the two full season Walkenhorst entries with the leading Aston driver (Ortmann/Bulatov) way down in seventh place within the overall table. Hull and Hantke are further back still but importantly for them, they enjoyed a double class podium weekend with two P2 Pro-Am class finishes at the Nurburgring.
For the Prosport Racing team, this weekend will all be about experience as all four of their drivers have little to no GT3 racing experience, certainly not within this series nor at this circuit so any results from them would be outstanding.
We were (for a time) if two more GT4 racers would be stepping up to the series within a Walkenhorst supported car as two tested with the team earlier this week before not exactly declaring what will become of that test other than a ‘wait and see!’
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